Deep breath and dive in!
4 swim sessions in 10 days, it is the pattern that needs to continue to get prepared for September. Saturday 7th January was one of those days where the water supported me, and the swimming was natural, it doesn't happen often, but it happens often enough to believe.
I committed to myself to swim for an hour, in the end it was 120 lengths (nearly 2 miles in one hour), wrapped up as 100m packets alternating front crawl and then front crawl with pool buoy, it's cheating, but it means my arms and neck are getting used to the constant rotation. For a change I only stopped after half an hour, more because I could than because I needed to, and that in itself is a breakthrough.
Tomorrow I am meeting the wonderful people who were at the retreat I attended in October in Spain, and I am excited to share with them the continuing breakthroughs that they helped me initialise with positive thoughts, words and beliefs, we all need people around us to keep our own stories real (the gremlins often interfere :). At the Gnarly Nutters swim club on monday one of the newer (yup even newer than me!) moved into 'our lane' and commented on how wonderful it was to swim with others vs on her own.
I'm not surprised, Pete told me my swimming development was now about training with others, our natural competitiveness, desire to belong, connection and inspiration from people all drive us to perform above and beyond our own self limiting beliefs. I would never have agreed to this challenge without being part of a team of inspirational, talented, beautiful and powerful women.
Here's to the day I can swim for a full 90 minutes in a pool and perhaps in the sea...ever onwards...
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